On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Vitaly Burovoy <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/10/16, Jim Nasby <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 9/3/16 6:01 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: >>> I am curious as to the use cases for other possibilities. >> >> A hex or base64 type might be interesting, should those ever get created... >> -- >> Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX > > Hex or base64 are not data types. They are just different > representation types of binary sequences. > Even for bigints these representations are done after writing numbers > as byte sequences.
Moved to next CF. The patch did not actually receive that much reviews. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
